A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.
a Pacific outrigger sailing canoe, originated by the island peoples of the North Pacific
a Pacific sailing canoe with a single outrigger
a two hull ed vessel with unequal parallel hulls, superficially similar to an outrigger canoe
An ancient multihull sailboat design that has one out-rigger which is used to sail windward by tacking back and forth with the out-rigger always upwind of the main hull. Once used like "seagoing pick-ups trucks" by Pacific seafarers, some PROAS and Catamarans where over 60' in length and could out sail European sailing ships like the one used by Captain James Cook during his Pacific explorations.
A Proa is a multihull vessel consisting of two (usually) unequal parallel hulls, superficially similar to an outrigger canoe. Found in many configurations and forms, it was developed as a sailing vessel in Micronesia (Pacific Ocean), and forms of it may be found as far as Madagascar and Sri Lanka.
